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MKC78FTG08

1978-06-01 · GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N101CU has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (DJI MATRICE 600 PRO), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH C55 · N101CU
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
Personal/private
Airport
GRAND FORKS INTL
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000TE-22
Total time
980 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,150
Age
41

Investigator remarks

CABIN DOOR CAME UNLATCHED.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/CB C
    POWERPLANT LINES AND FITTINGS Cause
  • 88/C/AJ C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause
  • 88/B/DG B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
  • 84/L/E L
    MISCELLANEOUS SMOKE IN COCKPIT

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1862. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1862.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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